Production Planner

Viken Detection is seeking a highly organized and proactive Production Planner to manage and optimize production schedules, material availability, and manufacturing workflow. This role is critical to ensuring on-time delivery, maximizing efficiency, and supporting our growing production operations.

The ideal candidate will have experience in production planning within a manufacturing environment, strong ERP/MRP system knowledge, and the ability to collaborate across operations, purchasing, manufacturing, and engineering teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct material scenarios at top-level and sub-assembly stages to drive "clear to build" status and maintain the master production schedule.
• Create and manage build assemblies within the manufacturing ERP system to ensure accurate production tracking.
• Lead production updates in daily cross-functional Teams meetings, providing status on material availability and scheduling constraints.
• Run weekly production status meetings, with a focus on clear to build dates highlighting issues that need to be resolved to achieve ship dates.
• Run monthly SIOP meetings.
• Support the department in organizing procedures, records, and Lean manufacturing reports.